An interesting surprise from tonight’s Rachel Maddow Show is a new poll out from Gallup, which is based on people from each state and their political party identification. I’m not going to paraphrase or quote, because if you’re really interested in the relatively short article explaining the poll and its results, just click over to it here at the Gallup site.

There are some results which do surprise me though:

The results from this poll are very similar to those of last year.

Texas, where I’ve lived for so long, and Kansas, my home state, both of which are traditionally conservative and vote Republican, now show a competitive balance in party association.

Oklahoma, which had no (yes, that’s zero) county give a majority of its votes to President Obama in the 2008 election is shown as leaning Democrat.

Only five states are shown as strong Republican or leaning Republican.

One thing to note is that according to the article, the survey was taken of adults 18 or older, not necessarily voters.

If you like politics and demographics, take a look and check out where your state and the country stands politically, at least, based on this survey.

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Trip, there’s just no sanity left in the Republican Party. It’s difficult to reason with the unreasonable. The birthers, the town-hall meeting disrupters, added to the ‘tax cuts for the wealthy will fix everything’ nuts make them an almost non-existent regional party. I know it sounds like I’m tickled pink, but I think we need at least two viable political philosophies to keep the powerful from taking advantage of us.